A person has died after being hit by a train at Seven Kings railway station this morning.

Trains are suspended until 2pm today (Wednesday January 2) as a result of the incident.

A spokesperson for the London Ambulance service said: “We were called at 10:27am today (2 January) to Seven Kings railway station, Ilford to reports of an incident.

“We sent an incident response officer, a motorcycle responder, a single responder in a car and an ambulance crew to the scene. We also dispatched our hazardous area response team (HART) and London's Air Ambulance.